I have my eye on a 90 FXR that has been sitting in the dealer for a few months. He is down to 5995.00. They've been pretty stuborn on the price but I'll be stopping in this weekend to see how they are feeling.

I want it for a project bike so I'd like to get it as cheap as possible. From what I've seen 6k seems to be what they go for but being a dealer and wanting to push the new bikes I'm hoping he'll come down around 5k.

 

Well said PaJoe!

 

+1
including the part about the old dog!

 

I don't want to start a race here, but I have well over that in mine! There comes a point when it gets easier to spend on them and put even more in. I fitted an S&S 107 to mine a year or so ago, because it was far cheaper than changing bikes, bearing in mind all the other goodies I had already fitted.

I never looked at it that way before! I love keeping my 'old' bike up to date, while keeping up with the new kids on the block. With a few carefully chosen improvements she can run with any of them and leave some behind. I also have more recent bikes for a brief ride out on something more 'up-to-date'!

 

We picked up my wife's 1988 Heritage Softail on Valentine's day. Great bang for the buck!

 

I paid $1,800 for my pan 24 yaers ago, Put some sweat & love in her & have loved her ever since. Back than the gold wings were real popular & the cructh rockets were hot sellers. Nobody wanted a pan, I remember when sex was safe & motorcycles were dangerus. Anyways I too took advantage of the time once more. I went shoppping for a newwer used bike & found a brand spanking new Road King Clasic for $16,600 I couldnt pass it up. Still have the pan though wont part with her for nothing. I have been offered lots of due for the pan, but the memorys are pricless. I atached a pic of booth pics together, I dont think my taste chached much. I will ride my pan to rallys & big partys, but for just cumuting I will ride the Road king. The pan has done me good so she does deserve a break. Hope she dosnt get jealus & break my leg again.

 

Both of those bikes are really nice.

 

thanks I do really like them

 

Very nice scoot you have there! I have realized how expensive it it to buy parts and accessories. I too have over $20K in my bike - V&H headers and slipons, Hypercharger, mustang seat, tour pak and mount, chrome fork lowers, everything chromed that can be - and I haven't even done the wheels yet! I didn't realize how much I had spent on it until I built a spreadsheet with all of the individual purchases, and it totaled over $20K. Yikes!

I went to a local stealer here a few months back to look at new bikes. This was in late July, right before the end of the fiscal year, which is traditionally thought to be the best time to get a deal because they need to move their stock to ensure the best allotment of new bikes for the new year. I found a new mirage orange 2009 Road Glide (I LOVE that color). We started talking, and they offered me just $3500 for my bike! That's it! I was floored. I had expected that they would offer substantially less than I could get by selling it myself - but only $3500? They didn't care about any of the customizing AT ALL.

They also LIED to me by telling me that the Blue Book price was only $3500. I have done my own research - and it's more like $6000-$7000! Their OTD price for the Road Glide, INCLUDING my trade-in, would have been $16,675! Needless to say, I passed...

I told them I had $20K in it, and that their offer wasn't even close. The salesman said "Well that's all we can do", like he really didn't care if I bought that Road Glide or not... probably because he knew that some well-heeled yuppie sucker would be in shortly to buy the bike at full list without a trade-in to hassle with, and $2000 worth of H-D gear to go with it. He told me that my front cylinder base gasket was leaking and they would have to do an $1800 top-end tear-down to fix it. That's not true either... the front TAPPET BLOCK COVER is weeping a bit - but it's NOT the front cylinder base gasket! I know my bike...

So, don't even THINK about trading an Evo at the dealer, because they won't give you SQUAT for it... I'm keeping my Evo forever

 

Me too!